Blepharis.| ACANTHACE® (Clarke). 25 
Mossel Bay Div.; hills near the landing-place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6293 ! 
between Little Brak River and Hartenbosch, Burchell, 6213! Humansdorp Div. ; 
near Little Zekoe River, MacOwan, 304! Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops 
River, Ecklon § Zeyher, 475! Sunday River, Bowie! Alexandria Div.; on the 
Zuur Berg Range, 2000-3000 ft., Drege! Enon and Fish River, Baur, 1081! 
Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burke! MacOwan, 147! Lower Albany, at 
Glenfilling, 1000 ft., Drége! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, 3800 ft., 
Galpin, 1942! Komgha Div. ; near the Kei River, 1800 ft., Flanagan, 1083! 
CENTRAL REGION: Willowmore Div.?; valley of the Gamtoos River, Bolus, 
2421! Somerset Div.; without precise locality, Bowie!’ Albert Div.; between 
Stormberg Spruit and Braam Berg, 4500 ft., Drége / 
KAtaAnHart ReGIon: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 
1950! Orange River Colony; Vet River, Burke!’ Bechuanaland; near the source 
of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2473! Transvaal; Magalies Berg, 4600 ft., 
Schlechter, 3682! Pienaars River, 4300 ft., Schlechter, 4208 ! 
EastERN Re@ion;: Griqualand East; mountain sides around Clydesdale, 
2500 ft., Tyson, 2682! MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr., 829! Natal ; 
at the foot of Table Mountain, Krawss, 21! near Umkomaas River, Wood, 1413! 
in “ Thorns” near Mooi River, Wood, 4429! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
1919! Delagoa Bay, Kuntze. 
Also in Tropical Africa and India. 
8. B, setosa (Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 265); leaves 11 by? in., 
scabrous with several-celled white hairs; bracteoles ending in a 
white bristle; otherwise as B. molluginifolia, Pers. C. B. Clarke in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 98. 
KALAHARI Reeion: Transvaal; Apies River, near Pretoria, Burke ! 
Eastern Rea@ion : Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, 1918! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
4. B. innocua (C. B. Clarke) ; minutely pubescent; stem 6-18 in. 
long, much divided, wiry, hispid-scabrous ; leaves 1 by 1-1 in., 
elliptic or oblong, entire, searcely petioled ; spikes $ by } in., 
axillary, subsessile, reduced to 5-7 closely imbricate bracts, the 
terminal supporting «a flower, the rest empty; braets mucronate, 
nearly spineless, the uppermost (flower-bearing) } in, long ; bracteoles 
2 in. long, boat-shaped, lanceolate; anticous calyx-segment 2 in, 
long ; corolla 2 in. long; on the posticous face of the ovary at its 
top are 2 viseid hollows and 4 transverse glands. 
KatauHarit Reaion: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6192! near Lyden- 
berg, Wilms, 1215! Bronkhorst Spruit, Wilms, !215a! Pietersburg. 4700 ft., 
Schlechter, 4681 ! ; 
5. B. angusta (T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 35) ; sparsely 
and minute hairy; stems 3-7 in. long, wiry ; leaves 14-2} by ;, in., 
linear, entire, without spines, often approximated in fours; spikes 
1 by 3 in., subsessile, ovoid, loose, of 2-4 flowers; bracts } in. long, 
ovate, acute, with 5—7 spinous teeth; bracteoles } by , in.; ealyx 
hairy within and without; anticous segment } in. long; corolla 1 in. 
long, blue. Acanthodium angustum, Nees in DC. Prod, xi. 273; 
Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 92. 
KabAnart Reeron: Transvaal; near Schoen Spruit, Burke! and without | 
precise locality, MacLea in Bolus Herb. 6475! 
EBastegn Reoion: Natal, Owen, according to T. Anderson, — 
